Now & Lately

The /now page is a concept developed by Derek Sivers where folks share whatever is important or interesting to them at this particular now. It’s kind of like a more fluid /about page.

Reading

• It by Stephen King
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Playing

• Enter the Gungeon — A bullet hell roguelike, and one of the few technical couch co-ops for the Switch
• Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Mildly obsessed with the atmosphere and ecology of the Depths

Working towards

• Perfecting the vertical steam channels in homemade crumpets
• Strengthening my sourdough starter
• Getting the hang of cooking Chinese dishes in a wok on an electric stove
• Reorganizing my learning and writing systems around the Zettelkasten concept

Pondering

How to strategically structure my work and exercise to be more aligned with cyclic changes in mood, energy, stress, sleep patterns, etc.

The clashes between individualistic/medicalized views vs systemic/social views of mental health (check out Jesse Meadows’ substack Sluggish for some great essays)

The extent to which the DSM centers work (and that which interferes with work) in defining symptoms and dysfunction

Reframing history education as lessons in world building as a way to trick my brain into engaging with the material more

The special place in my heart for movies that take place in (or close to) the span of a night (Die Hard, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, Labyrinth, Coherence, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)